Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?Vandamm: Games, must we?Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theatre this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of unreasonable about things like that.He again expressed his disapproval: "You could be jailed for this.You had no search warrant for my cane." During his recent hospital stay, he had acquired the nickname "Wilfrid he Fox" for hiding cigars and brandy all over the place.Like many other musicals of its time, Hollywood again looked to a successful Broadway stage play (first starring Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert) for its source material (e.Although it wasnotthe firstVitaphone(sound-on-disk) feature, it was thefirstfeature-length Hollywood "talkie" film in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action.Acting in character, knowing that money can get her anything she wants, Ellie bribes him into not informing her father about her whereabouts - while touching his chest: "Listen, if you promise not to do it, I""ll pay you.